Given the extraordinary attention and interest being focused on the global economy in 2009, the National Golf Foundation has chosen economist Jeffrey J. Schott to address attendees of its Golf Business Symposium at the Peninsula Chicago on April 22. Schott is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.
In a presentation titled "Golf in a Troubled Economy," Schott will discuss possible economic scenarios affecting the business of golf over the next 12 to 18 months. He will also address how new national and international economic policy may shape the severity of the current recession.
Schott is a member of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy of the U.S. Department of State. He also has been an official of the U.S. Treasury Department in international trade and energy policy; a visiting lecturer at Princeton University; and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He is an avid golfer.
The Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981, the Institute has provided timely and objective analysis of, and concrete solutions to, a wide range of international economic problems. It is one of the very few economics think tanks that are widely regarded as "nonpartisan" by the press and "neutral" by the U.S. Congress.
For more information about NGF's Golf Business Symposium, visit www.ngf.org/cgi/symposium.asp.